Muneeza Shamsie (nee Habibullah) is a Pakistani critic, writer
and bibliographer. She is on the jury for the 2013 DSC Prize for
South Asian Literature and has served two terms as the regional
judge (Europe and South Asia) for the Commonwealth Writers Prize
(2010 and 2011). She is on the editorial board of Pakistaniaat:
A Journal of Pakistan Studies , Guest Editor Special Pakistan
Issue of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing 47.2 .
She has edited three anthologies A Dragonfly In the Sun: An
Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English (OUP 1997), a
retrospective of poetry, fiction and drama; Leaving Home:
Towards A New Millenium: A Collection of English Prose by Pakistani
Writers (OUP 2001) , about migration; And The World
Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women (Women
Unlimited 2005): its US edition (Feminist Press at CUNY, 2008) with
new headwords and a new expanded introduction, received the IPPY
(Independent Publisher of the Year) Gold Award and the Foreword
Magazine's book of the year, Bronze award, both for the best
anthology.
She is Managing Editor of a work-in-progress The Oxford
Companion to the Literatures of Pakistan and is writing a
critical book Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani
English Literature (working title). She contributes regularly
to The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and The
Literary Encyclopedia and in Pakistan to the daily newspaper
Dawn and the periodical Newsline . She was born
in Lahore, educated in England and lives in Karachi.